For most this would be a magical weekend, but for Bridgeton High School throwing star Braheme Days, Jr. it’s just typical.

A week after he won the South Jersey Group II shot put and discus titles with meet records, he duplicated the feat this weekend at the state Group II and III track meet.

“It was amazing,” Days said of setting the discus mark with a personal record of 196 feet, 2 inches Friday night. “Just been working hard, going at and I was just lucky enough to get it done.”

And luck was exactly what he needed to win the Group II shot put title on Saturday.

After fouling on his first two throws of the preliminaries, Days opted to go with the punch technique just to get a qualifying score and advance to the finals. The decision still almost cost him a spot in the finals, but he was able to sneak in by the skin of his teeth.

“There wasn’t a happier guy in the world (when they announced the final eight),” Days said with a smile. “It stuck to my palm, I can punch farther than that. But it stuck to my palm and when it came out of my hand, my mouth went open like no, please. I would have done anything to have it back, but I guess I didn’t need it. I lucked out.”

Days would foul on his first throw of the final as well before hitting the 60-foot mark and finishing with his record throw of 64-7 3⁄4.

But before he was winning his own shot put title, he was cheering on another local athlete winning his shot put title — Delsea’s Josh Awotunde in Group III.

“We’ve been friends since freshmen year when we first met, he was throwing 50s already,” Awotunde said with a smile. “I just looked at him and said, ‘I have to keep working. If he can do it, I can do it, too.’ Right now he’s doing a little better than me, but we push each other. He pushes me mostly, but we built a good relationship, camaraderie.”

The encouragement was just what Awotunde needed, as he finished off the throwing double for the second straight weekend as well.

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“This weekend my mission was to get first in both events,” Awotunde said. “To get first in discus I had to do my best. I was hoping to do better (in the shot) just to make my title look better, but a title is a title so I’m happy.”

The crowd at South Plainfield got his best Friday night, when he hit the 192-2 mark in the discus — which is why his throw of 60-3 in the shot seemed short.

There was one last record to fall to a South Jersey star, and this one came on the track. In the Group III 800, Kingsway’s Derrell Manhertz outpaced the competition to a time of 1:51.02, three one-hundredths of a second faster than the previous meet record (which also happened to be a Group III record).

“It feels great,” he said of taking home a state title. “I am improving, the time was a PR. It’s great to see that a year’s worth of training paid off finally.”

While Manhertz won the race by .77, Ishmael Muhammad (Oakcrest) was right behind him, step-for-step for the entire race.

“When there’s someone right behind you, you have that extra push to do your best to make sure that no one else can get you,” Manhertz said.

The Dragon boys nickel-and-dimed their way through the weekend, once again getting points from up and down their roster. It was enough to hold off Northern Valley Demarest by a point, but they finished in second to Timber Creek by a score of 107-89.

The Kingsway girls finished second in Group III as well, 28 points off the pace set by Winslow Township. Thrower Tara Daniels, who came up with 10 big points at the end of the South Jersey sectionals to push the Dragons through to this weekend, had another big weekend.

After finishing fourth in the javelin (second in team scoring) and second in the shot put (first in team scoring) Friday, she added another second place in the discus (first in team scoring). She was still feeling some of the affects of the heat from Friday, which kept her from having her best throws despite tallying a ton of points.

“It means the world to me, I know I didn’t let my team down for throwing the way I did,” she said. “The only person I let down was myself so that means the world to me that I could help my team out with 28 points.”